Aesthetic education as an important part of identity formation in junior school years.

Abstract

The article studies the problem of aesthetic education and defines basic directions of junior schoolchildren’s aesthetic education. It is proved that aesthetic education is an organized, active and purposeful process, the constituent element of which is development of interest and love for nature in schoolchildren, abilities to notice the beautiful and admire it, the ability to demonstrate a sense of beauty in the process of natural phenomena perception. The authors identified the main problems of primary schoolchildren’s aesthetic education and the ways to solve them by engaging children in work, in labor training. The idea is substantiated that aesthetic education can be realized through involvement in artistic and creative activity at general education and cultural institutions, as well as in training activities and in various forms and types of extracurricular educational work. The directions of further work connected with the impact of labor training and fine arts classes on fostering a sense of beauty related to the nature environment in junior schoolchildren are determined.